Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus mumbled New Haven's Nathan Mann (Natalino Menchetti) after two and a half rounds of trading punches with Detroit's Joe Louis for the heavyweight championship of the world...
Last week Detroit's Health Commissioner Henry Frieze Vaughan asked his city council to offer a bounty of three cents for every dead rat delivered to the Department of Public Works (garbage). Special employes of that department killed 900,000 Detroit rats last year, expect to kill 2,000,000 rats this year. But Health Commissioner Vaughan wanted to get the 2.000.000 killed in a great hurry, for an epidemic of infective jaundice was spreading in Detroit. Twenty-two children had contracted the disease. One, Donald Siegle, had died...
...East Detroit, Mich...
...city in which the C. I. O. unsuccessfully entered the mayoralty election with a direct endorsement of a losing candidate was (1 New York, 2 Birmingham, 3 Newark, N. J., 4 San Francisco, 5 Detroit...
Baltimore, Md., Feb. 14--Germaine G. Glidden '36 today defeated Leroy Weir of Detroit to retain his title as United States Squash Racquets Champion in the National tournament here. His semi-final victory came at the expense of Hunter Lott, of Philadelphia...